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- noun Plural form of
bias . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bias .
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| Reply | Permalink if blogs are capable of making political analysis without wearing the biasses of the blogosphere on their sleeve
James Carville Says Clinton Won Debate, Again Not I.D.ed As Clinton Supporter By CNN 2009
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Heaven will enable me to be reconciled to the event, because I pursue the dictates of that judgment, against the biasses of my more partial heart
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He had all the Henty biasses in history, and was particularly fond of the cheerful murder stories of Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot — he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common — but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.
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But even in this democracy, absolute power, if they chose to exercise it, would rest with the numerical majority; and these would be composed exclusively of a single class, alike in biasses, prepossessions, and general modes of thinking, and a class, to say no more, not the most highly cultivated.
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In Spain, there are few or no schools in the villages and small towns, that would have the effect of releasing the minds of the natives from monkish tyranny, which at present influences their principles, and biasses their choice, with regard to political, and indeed almost all other pursuits.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various
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He had all the Henty biasses in history, and was particularly fond of the cheerful murder stories of Mary Roberts Rinehart. 130
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He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriothe suspected that being Irish was being somewhat commonbut Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.
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He had all the Henty biasses in history, and was particularly fond of the cheerful murder stories of Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot -- he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common -- but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.
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